Olympic gold medalist Suni Lee said she was pepper sprayed in a racist attack last month in Los Angeles.
, the gymnast said she was attacked while she and her girlfriends — all of Asian descent — were waiting for a ride. A group in a car speeding by started yelling racist slurs and a passenger sprayed Lee’s arm with pepper spray, she said.
As the first Hmong American to represent the U.S. in the Olympics, the 18-year-old Lee astounded the world by winning a gold medal in the women’s all-around competition during the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. She is in her freshman year at Auburn University in Alabama and was in Los Angeles for rehearsals for an appearance on “Dancing With the Stars” when the incident occurred.
Anti-Asian hate crimes increased by 76% in Los Angeles County last year, according to a report from the county’s Commission on Human Relations, mirroring a disturbing trend in many other jurisdictions as physical and verbal attacks on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders rose during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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